by Émile Ajar · Plataforma Editorial, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788493596293
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«La vida ante sí» is the novel by Émile Ajar (pseudonym of Romain Gary), published by Plataforma Editorial in hardcover (222 pages, in Spanish).
Momo, an orphaned Muslim boy, narrates his life with Madame Rosa, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who runs a boarding house in Belleville for the children of prostitutes. Faced with Madame Rosa's illness, Momo tries to protect her while reflecting on racism, loneliness and fear with humor and tenderness.
Work originally published in French as La vie devant soi; translation by Ana María de la Fuente. The original text won the Prix Goncourt in 1975.
For the general public seeking twentieth-century French fiction and stories told from a child's perspective.
Romain Gary, also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a Lithuanian-born French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century.
